Browse Items · The Haskell Monroe Collection: Life in the Confederacy

The Story of a Border City During the Civil War

“1858-1866. A reminiscence of life in St. Louis from Secession to Radical rule by a ‘Professor in the University of Chicago, Resident of St. Louis from 1858 to 1866.’"

Tags: au:male, era:Civil War, loc:Missouri, loc:St Louis MO, pd:1908, su:civilian, su:homefront, su:local history, su:military, su:observer, su:occupation, su:war experience, ts:memory

The Story of a Soldier’s Life

“Experiences on a visit to CSA Army in 1862.”

Tags: au:english, au:male, era:Civil War, pd:1903, su:British, su:foreign, su:military, su:observer, su:political, su:slavery, su:travel, su:war experience, ts:memory

The Story of My Life

Tags: au:male, au:northern, au:union, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, era:postwar, pd:1885, su:medical, su:military, su:northern perspective, su:travel, su:union, su:war experience, ts:autobiography

The Story of my Life: or More than a Half-Century as I Have Lived it and Seen it Lived

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Tennessee, pd:1912, su:civilian, su:homefront, su:political, su:religion, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:autobiography

The United States During the War

Tags: au:foreign, au:male, au:spanish, era:Civil War, pd:1866, su:foreign, su:political, su:spain, su:travel, su:war experience, ts:memory

The University of North Carolina

"1861-1865. Chapel Hill, North Carolina. A personal reflection of events in Chapel Hill and at UNC during the war."

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Chapel Hill NC, loc:North Carolina, pd:1930, su:civilian, su:education, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:narrative

The University of North Carolina in the Civil War: An Address Delivered at the Centennial Celebration of the Opening of the Institution, June 5th, 1895

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Chapel Hill NC, loc:North Carolina, pd:1895, su:education, su:homefront, su:local history, su:military, su:political, su:Reconstruction, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory, ts:narrative

The University of Virginia, October, 1860, to April, 1861

“October 1860-April 1861. Charlottesville, Virginia. A freshman at “The University” during the secession winter describes the events on ‘The Grounds.”

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:1861, era:Civil War, loc:Charlottesville VA, loc:Virginia, pd:1920, su:confederate, su:education, su:homefront, su:military, su:seccession, su:war experience, ts:memory

The War Letters of a Texas Conscript in Arkansas

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, loc:Arkansas, loc:Coffee Tx, loc:Texas, loc:Upshur County Tx, loc:Wastaw County Ar, milt:Company H Eighteenth Texas Volunteer Infantry, pd:1961, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:military, su:war experience, ts:correspondence

The Wartime Experiences of Margaret McCalla: Confederate Refugee from East Tennessee

“1861-1864. Letters. Relates her departure from east Tennessee for Chester District, SC, only one day before the Union troops arrived. McCalla describes her efforts to care for her children (one son died, and another was born) and to raise crops on…

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:1863, era:Civil War, loc:Morristown Tn, loc:Tennessee, pd:1965, su:civilian, su:female experience, su:occupation, su:political, su:southern, su:unionist, su:war experience, ts:correspondence

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